Sun

pitchfork

Chan Marshall's new album comes 17 years after her debut as Cat Power and six years after her most recent collection of original material. Sun, her first album to feature synthesizers, Auto-Tune, and Iggy Pop, exists completely and defiantly outside of any larger musical trends.

rollingstone

"Real life is ordinary," Chan Marshall sings halfway through her ninth album – and she makes it sound like hard-won wisdom, because you can hear in Marshall's voice how fiercely she had to fight just to make it to real life. Marshall produced Sun herself, in the wake of what seems like one brutal breakup. […]